Introduction: Americanizing the Abyss / Harold Bloom -- On Poe's Eureka / Paul Valéry -- Edgar Allan Poe / D.H. Lawrence -- The angelic imagination / Allen Tate -- The house of Poe / Richard Wilbur -- "Ligeia" and the romantic tradition / Clark Griffith -- The marriage group / Daniel Hoffman -- The White shadow / John T. Irwin -- On reading poetry / Shoshana Felman.